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Everything I need to know about accessibility I learned from Star Wars by Derek Featherstone. Small band of rebels versus the unfeeling evil empire :) A good motivational, conceptual overview of Accessibility. Not much by way of example or technique, but still good. Check out my notes below.
A/B Testing: Design Friend or Foe? – Corey Chandler Lead Interaction Designer, eBay Inc – Jake Cressman Producer, Electronic Arts – Chris Maliwat Sr Dir of Prod Mgmt, Vuze Inc – Micah Alpern Design Dir Social Search, Yahoo! Inc – Elliot Shmukler Principal Prod Mgr, LinkedIn Very valuable panel on testing design changes to determine […]
The last year has seen a massive shift in the amount and type of work that I have to do, both at my job, and the rest of life. No longer am I able to simply get up, turn on the computer, push a few pixels in Fireworks, write a few lines of code in […]
Last fall I experienced a bit of burnout with Web design and development. I had so many different projects all going on at the same time, and shifting responsibilities and roles in my position that I had a hard time discerning up from down. I came to a point where I just wanted to quit […]
Why I’m thankful this year. On my personal blog: Thanksgiving – Matt and Nancy Heerema
So, my blog now has the same page rank as Engadget. Go me!!! Oh… wait. Anyone who has been paying attention has already heard the news about the shift in Google’s algorithm that seems to be penalizing sites for massive cross linking. This is especially relevant to myself as my job is as Lead designer […]
Smashing Magazine posted a nice roundup of Online Calendars and Date Pickers.
ideasonideas: How to disarm 10 difficult client observations/requests. Great responses to horrible requests.
Okay this is just flipping cool. A List Apart: Findings From the Web Design Survey > In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted the first survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of […]
Best Practices For Bulletproof E-Mail Delivery teaches us how to make sure our e-mails don’t accidentally get caught by spam filters.
Eric Meyer has created some Diagnostic Styling that allows you to see your bad code. Fleshing this idea out a little bit could be a useful tool for every Web Standardista’s arsenal (to mix metaphors).
Grid Layout via JavaScript. I still don’t get why people are excited about using behavior-controlling scripts for presentation…